Source: US Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), 8/24/18

This week, I returned to the Senate floor to continue my fight to reauthorize America’s most successful conservation program, the Land and Water Conservation Fund. We are 37 days away from the program’s expiration, and I’m more committed than ever to renew this vital fund that does so much to protect and maintain some of America’s most beautiful national treasures – at absolutely no cost to the taxpayers.

You might remember that in July I offered an amendment to reauthorize LWCF. While that effort was unsuccessful, I offered my colleagues two more bipartisan compromises this week. Although nearly all of my colleagues profess to support this program, they again refused to take up the issue. I promise all my fellow Senators and Representatives this: if I have to come down to the Senate floor morning and afternoon, day after day after day, I’ll do it. I’ve got enough iterations of the bill that I can accommodate anybody’s concerns and find a way to get permanent authorization.

WATCH: Senator Burr Speaks on the LWCF on Senate Floor

In 2015, it took LWCF’s expiration before Congress got serious about reauthorizing the program and allowing these vital conservation efforts to continue. We must act now because the next generation deserves to grow up in the same beautiful North Carolina that we enjoyed so much. 37 days until the Land and Water Conservation Fund expires –  rest assured, I will not allow that to happen again.